TORONTO - Acclaimed Montreal-based author Rawi Hage has made the short list for the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize.

The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner is a finalist for "Carnival" (House of Anansi Press), his latest novel since his 2008 Giller contender "Cockroach."

This year's crop of Writers' Trust fiction finalists also includes Montreal-born author Alix Ohlin for "Inside" (House of Anansi Press), which is also on the long list for the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Linda Spalding, who has previously made the Writers' Trust non-fiction short list, is now a finalist for the fiction prize for her novel "The Purchase" (McClelland & Stewart).

The Writers' Trust of Canada is a charitable organization founded by authors including Margaret Atwood and the late Pierre Berton.

On Wednesday, it also announced three finalists for the $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, recognizing new and developing writers.

They are: Kevin Hardcastle for "To Have to Wait" (The Malahat Review); Andrew Hood's "Manning" (PRISM international); and Alex Pugsley for "Crisis on Earth-X" (The Dalhousie Review).

Both prizes, along with four additional awards for a body of work, will be presented on Nov. 7 in Toronto.

Total prize money presented that night will amount to $114,000.

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